The Loss Prevention Bulletin

If your employers will not let you publish an accident report under your own name, perhaps they will let you send it to a journal that will publish it anonymously, for example, the Loss Prevention Bulletin (see Recommended Reading), or perhaps they will let you publish details of the action you took as a result. This may not have the same impact as the report, but it is a lot better than nothing (see Section 8.1.5). 

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) offers the Loss Prevention Bulletin— Articles and Case Histories from Process Industries Throughout the World. Contact Matthew Powell-Price, editor. This Bulletin is published every second month and is available on a subscription basis. 

A full account of the developments of this concept is given in Lees, Kletz (1984) and UMIST (1982). The Loss Prevention Bulletin (published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, England) is also a must for interested people. It is available in most technical libraries and a list of its main articles over the years is included in Lees. The basic principles of inherently safer designs in the process industry are ... 

The Loss Prevention Bulletin stated that 150-200 L (40-53 gallons) of hot water remained trapped and undetected in the piping system as the hose was nnconpled. LPB 178 was silent on the height of the silos, but a polypropylene snbject matter expert I contacted believed most present day silos were at least 80 ft. (24 m) high and perhaps higher, so there is no doubt of significant hydrostatic water pressure as the hose was discoimected (see Fig. 3.14). 

When I worked in industry, and when my prime focus was loss prevention, over two decades ago, I was certain to have my employer purchase the Loss Prevention Bulletin by the IChemE because it contained clear messages. 

The Loss Prevention Bulletin s website states Learn process safety lessons without repeating mistakes. ... 

First published by IChemE in 1974 in response to the disastrous explosion at Flixborough, the Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) provided a way for the process industries to share information on accidents with the intention that other organisations could learn the same process safety lessons without repeating the same mistakes. 

The Forgotten Flazards Services in Warehouses, Loss Prevention Bulletin 084, IChemE,1989, pp. 7-12. 

Kletz, T. A. (1983). Inherently Safer Plant—The Concept, Its Scope and Benefits. Loss Prevention Bulletin 051 (June), 1-8. 

Loss Prevention Bulletin, Published every two months by the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Rugby, UK. 

Watson, P. B. 1988. Flame Arresters and the Chemical Tanker. IChemE Loss Prevention Bulletin No. 079 (February 1988). 

IChemE. 1987. The Feyzin disaster. Loss Prevention Bulletin No. 077 1-10. 

Health and Safety Executive. 1986. The effect of explosions in the process industries. Loss Prevention Bulletin. 1986. 68 31-47. 

Pape, R. P. (Working Group Thermal Radiation). 1988. Calculation of the intensity of thermal radiation from large fires. Loss Prevention Bulletin. 82 1-11. 

Prototype CBR application has been implemented on MS -Excel spreadsheet. The program has been organized on several sheets. A database of cases was created which consists of accident cases collected from literature (e.g. Lees (1996) and Loss Prevention Bulletin) and of design recommendations. The application program includes retrieval functions which are used to retrieve the most suitable cases from the database. 

Institute of Chemical Engineers, "Articles and Case Histories from Process Industries Throughout the World", Loss Prevention Bulletin, 075, June 1987, Institute of Chemical Engineers, Ruby, U.K., 1987. 

The American Petroleum Institute also publishes a series of booklets on specific lessons learned. In the UK, the Institution of Chemical Engineers publishes Loss Prevention Bulletins that contain specific case histories. 

The Effects of Explosions in the Process Industries, Loss Prevention bulletin 068, Overpressure Working Party, Major Hazards Assessment Panel, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Apr., 1986. 

Hall,). (1993) Hazards involved in the handling and use of dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO). Loss Prevention Bulletin, 114 (12), 9-14. 

Some operators who have been asked to wash out and prepare vessels for inspection or repairs understand these problems. Energetic reactions are likely with strong sulfuric acid, some salts like calcium chloride, and some alkalis. A violent eruption of steam and dilute caustic soda occurred when a preparing 73-percent caustic soda storage tank for maintenance. This incident appeared in the British Loss Prevention Bulletin about a decade ago. [6]... 

David Mansfield, in an article in British Loss Prevention Bulletin, captures the focus on the need for an effective Management of Change Policy in his introductory paragraph Every once in a while an apparently subtle change to a process or method of operation gives rise to a new or at least totally unexpected hazard. [6]... 

Lewis, D.. Puebla, Mexico—19 June 1977, Loss Prevention Bulletin—Articles and Case Historiesfi om Process Industries Throughout the World, vol. 1(X), published by the Institution ol Chemical Engineers, August 1991, pp. 35-42. 

The monthly CCPS Process Safety Beacon (CCPS, Beacon) is designed for manufacturing personnel, describing actual accidents, the lessons learned, and the practical means to prevent a similar accident in other plants. Similarly, the United Kingdom s Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Loss Prevention Bulletin (IChemE, LPB) is another major source of safety case studies for the process industries. Included with each LPB issue is a Powerpoint Toolbox Talk on one... 

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